These
days we see that crime rate is increasing and it appears that people
have lost faith in honest living. In earlier times crime was limited
to a certain communities and those communities were branded as
criminal communities by British during their rule in India. Today we
see that all sorts of crimes are being done by people from most
unexpected communities. Communities normally known to be decent are
also indulging in civil crimes such as frauds, bribery, extortion,
black mail, maligning and at worst hiring killers to get rid of
opponents. In short we can say assuredly that the general level of
our society, and in that I include human societies of the whole world,
has declined considerably. Why this has happened?
I
searched for the answer and I found that the tool most faithfully
deployed by our ancestors called, ‘Religion’, has caused all this
degradation of our society. You may not agree in the first place
since, we all know that this tool of religion is actually created by
wise men of ancient times to keep society from behaving uncivilized
and take to criminal ways to solve their problems. And then to say
that this tool itself has been the root cause of all the degradation
is apparently not acceptable but friends, I can explain my findings
here and convince you that the religions are the culprits behind all
this bedlam. How? We shall see that.
If
we see the history of human race in all parts of the world; find that
in the beginning human society was perfectly uncivilized and they
interacted in the most dissipatedly manner with each other. Might was
right and strength was the deciding factor in all matters of human
relations. When some wise men realized that this equation is not
correct; they introduced code of practice to do justice to the
physically weak but ethically good people of the society. May be,
this they did because these wise men were weak and not strong
physically themselves! They could convince the mighty one in the
society that it is not the might but the moral value that should
decide the final solution. This was possible mostly because all
mighty ones were after some time becoming weak due to age or disease!
It was also seen by even mighty that they are not always mighty and
there always is a gradation in the mightiness. Mightier than the
mighty were coming up and they were mostly the rulers of the ancient
kingdoms. One theory suggests that might of intelligence overcome the
might of muscle. Finally, might of intelligence was proved to be the
most important. Shrewd and cunning people in the society were the
instrument behind this change over from physical strength to mental
strength.
These
mentally strong people were seen thrusting various religions and they
were called prophets. Some researchers have strong opinion that fear
in the mind of a man whether he is strong or weak was the key to this
logic. When some wise men began to introduce some discipline other
people of equal age most probably objected to that on the grounds of
authenticity. To overcome that; shrewd and cunning ones used this
fear psychosis to introduce concept of supreme called God or Allah or
Bhagwan whatever, it may be; and this trick worked well to control the
physically mighty but unruly men in the society. A code of practice
was introduced by each religion to the followers to pursue. Books
written for that were called gospels of those religions and to
disobey the code was deemed to be sacrilegious. People not practicing
them were either excommunicated or punished severely. In that, even
the mighty of physique were not spared.
Here we see
that fear is the cause behind all religions and those having no fear
never bothered to practice or honor any religion until and unless
they were inflicted by the force of fear. The question now we search
is why this fear? The answer is not too far-off. Ignorance is the
cause of all fears and that ignorance is removed only by knowledge.
In the beginning the teachings of the gospels were considered to be
the knowledge; and human society was to a great extent satisfied with
that. But there were many questioners and they broke the myth of
religions in due course. They proved, at the cost of their life in
most of the cases, that teachings in the religion is not the final
answer to many a questions human society is pestered about. Every
religion had three types of antagonists. The knowledge seekers just
mentioned and the others those, who never feared for anything, were
bad element in the society; or we can call them criminals or anti
social elements
(ASE). The third were those who had broken the code of the religion
either deliberately or erroneously and excommunicated or expelled.
The
first type thinkers or knowledge seekers were instrumental for
creation of division in the existing religions or introducing of
totally different religion. The third type preferred to go to those
new religions or the new division of the existing religions. This
caused creation of more religions and many more sects. The society
now had many religions or many sects of the same religion and so the
power of dictating was distributed over many. This created new
problem and caused disharmony. Making it difficult to control people.
Here we see that a system came into being mainly proposed and managed
by ruling government. They called it ‘Law’. Now the society is
bound to follow law, or be punished or expelled. Laws are different
from religious orders. Laws are mostly of secular nature and do not
always follow dictates of any religions; in some cases we see that
laws could be contradictory to a religious order also. Laws and
religious orders began to co-exist. Expelling by a law was similar to
excommunication by the religious leaders. While religions depended on
the belief of a God or Gods, and orders of religions came from that
whereas Law depended on Government either king or others and laws of
governments came from that king or so.
Things
were not that simple and we find that some other forces were also
functioning. Religions were proposed by prophets and they set in a
system that was managed by some other type of shrewd people who
claimed to be the apostles of those religions. They were the ones who
took to the task that the code of practice given in the religion is
properly practiced by all. These people were called as Priests,
Mullahs, Brahmans or whatever, it may be. Over the period these
controllers of religions gained stupendous authority over the people
and they were the dictating authority is those societies. Many bad
and clever people (ASE), entered this field of authority and took the
charge of those religions and through that those societies. Thus
criminal element finally entered religions. However, that ASE
continued to pretend to be thorough on the face. That fooled the
gullible people in the society.
All
this explains how religions and governments came to be established on
human societies. We have seen that religious dictates are practiced
most obediently by gentle people of the society and so they are
called gentlemen-women. That means non-gentlemen-women did not
obediently practice the dictates of religion but only pretended to be
doing that! It has a corollary that non-gentlemen or women who are
called ‘anti social elements’ (ASE) are behind the criminal life
in the society. Pretending to be gentlemen this section of the
community often reaches important positions in the hierarchy in the
religious institutes and political places with the same agility. These ASE work in groups to protect their interests, they seldom work individually. This strategy made their encroachments in various power positions easy.
After
having introduced to the way religions were created; and how they
controlled believers; we shall see the present situation in our
country. In our country we see that religions like Hinduism, Jainism
and Buddhism continuously and vehemently preach principals of
non-violence (Ahinsa), peace (Shanti). Christianity preaches
forgiveness. Whereas teachings of Islam are so ambiguous that they
are often misinterpreted (by ASE thinkers) and advantage goes to the
ASE in the society. As a result believers have become docile and
there resistance to those who indulge in these activities of crime is greatly
dependent on governing authorities such as police or army.
Interesting enough it appears that the people who vehemently preach
for these principals are coming from those ASE who have, high jacked,
high places in religion and Governments. In this article we shall see
relation in religion and crime. Later on some time in future we shall
see relation in government and crime.
Trap
On
one side we see that so called sadhus and saints incessantly preach
for non-violence and peace and principles of tolerance to gullible
believers and making them incompetent in resisting the violence by
anti social element; the other side shows that this same anti social
elements is taking full advantage of the situation and create
problems for the peace loving people. At times one may suspect that
there is some sort of conspiracy amongst the two, sadhus and saints
on one side and anti social element on the other side to exploit the
docility of the believers. ASE (anti social element) is feeling
confident that they are safe as the masses of believers are not going
to take any action against them and they are going to depend on
police to protect them. The sorry part is that police and government
are also infested with the similar ASE. I call this a trap. We are
trapped in the fix designed by ASE in sadhus and preachers on one
side and criminals (ASE) on the other side. Occasionally, we see
occurrence of such cases where peace loving docile believers loose
their cool and revolt to punish the ASE but then there, Laws also
controlled by the pretending ASE, comes in the way and instead of
holding the erring ASE arrest the gullible. This encourages the
erring ASE more and the crime continues in the society. Presently, we
see that the society is under an overdose of these principles of
non-violence, peace and pardon.
Is
ASE a virus?
I
began to feel that the infesting of the society by ASE is similar to
infesting of our body with a virus. Virus spreads by converting good
cells in the body into bad cells due to virus. Something similar
appears to be happening in the society. As some docile and believing
people realize that to be ASE is advantageous over remaining
believers and polite; they gradually change into new breed of ASE.
ASE are different from actual criminals in the sense that ASE keep on
pretending to be perfect believers and good citizens and criminals
are candid in exposing themselves as criminals. Detecting criminals
is easy but to do that with ASE is very difficult. Two-facedness of
the ASE makes them non traceable in the society. An ASE in the police
supports ASE in the government and public; at the same time ASE in
the judiciary gives such rulings that ASE elsewhere get additional
protection and lease for more nefarious activities in the society. At
times philosophical justifications are provided by ASE in the
religious places. All this makes it very difficult to know what is
right and what is wrong for lesser intelligent people! Confusion
prevails upon all!
Confusion
One
more interesting thing I observed and you will also appreciate the
complication involve in the matter. There could be two or more ASEs
having opposite interests and they conflict creating all the more
complicated situation for the people. The confusion keeps on
increasing for the ordinary people who are not fully aware of all
these complications. All ASEs are smart and that is one more
difference between a criminal and an ASE. Criminal shall push in to
indulge in a crime hurriedly while an ASE shall wait and seek
suitable opportunity to begin the advances. They are patient and
smart. An ASE knows how to justify their wrong doings and can explain
that they are not wrong; giving fabulous connotations referring to
the books of gospels from some religion, commonly practiced in that
society. They even give out new philosophies and religions to suit
their purpose. Many books have been written by some ASE to misguide
the masses. Adding to more confusion.
Vegetarianism
Some
opine that vegetarian diet reduces percentage of some hormones in the
body which flow in the brain cells and who are responsible to give
valor and courage to resist wrong. As a result a vegetarian society
is more docile and objectionably tolerant. Making activities of ASE
more pronounced. That may be the reason why all saints and sadhus who
are actually agents of this ASE are insisting that the society should
take to vegetarianism and they oppose non-vegetarian diet
aggressively.
How
to solve this confusion?
In short the
bottom line is today religion is being used to protect ASE activities
in the society. The question is how to remedy this? A very good
intelligence is an answer to this problem but alas... it is absent in
most of the human societies in this world. Amongst all books of
religion Bhagwatgita appears to be the most appropriate because, in
that book lord has suggested appropriate
and just violence in the wake of injustice.
This gospel of Hindus preaches ‘violence for justice’ and rules
out absolute non-violence Arjun advocated at the beginning of the
dialogue as a result after the Gita a big war commenced.
Unfortunately, none of the commentators could understand that and
have almost always misinterpreted the gospel of Gita. May be, these
commentators were in fact ASE! Here I am using this word gospel in
renewed meaning as “book of religion”. Somebody should endeavor
to highlight this aspect of Gita so that it may help us understand
the true teaching of Hindu religion through Gita.
Some
suggest that religions should be replaced by order of ethics and god
be replaced by goodness. Do you agree?
ASEs
are hidden as political leaders, social leaders, saints, sadhus,
rulers, judicial authorities and so on and so forth. Beware and try
to locate them. Watch out if you are an ASE?
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